Feature request: ability to use libeio with multiple event loops

[Ben Noordhuis]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 20:54, Marc Lehmann <schmorp at schmorp.de> wrote:
> Registers don't need magic to stay "intact" (== have the same value), they
> basically never change on their own, instructions must change them. There
> are exceptions, but the point is true even then: registers don't change
> due to magic, they change because a well-defined process changes them
> somehow.
>
> A tasks witch will typically only change the registers it needs to
> switch. For example, both MMU and FPU registers are only changed on demand
> on Linux, on architectures that allow that.

That's better. Your original statement was way too overarching. An
unwitting reader could come away with the wrong idea. It needed to be
called out.

>> Re: task switch vs. context switch: I'm using linux kernel
>> nomenclature because it's (IMO) more precise than the overloaded
>> concept of a context switch. I know you've posted to the LKML once or
>> twice so I assume you have a basic grasp of the kernel's internals.
>
> Maybe you shouldn't use nomenclature that you don't understand well enough
> though. I doubt you know what a task switch does in Linux, so why don't

I believe I know the nomenclature well enough because I know the
kernel well enough. To wit, my first contribution was in 1997. What
about you?